Don and Barb Smith have lived in their Columbus Road home for 20 years. They raised three children here, adopted four more, and are providing a foster home for another four.
Melissa Raines
The year-end holidays should be a time of joy. But for one woman on Lower Fredericktown-Amity Road, the Saturday after Christmas became a day of grief when two of her three dogs were shot to death. A third dog, a puppy, is still missing.
George Breithaupt
Either a road is there, or it isn’t. Pretty much a cut-and-dried determination, one might think. But, then, one wouldn’t be involved in government. If one stands at the rural intersection of Gilchrist and Obrien roads in Monroe Township, looking east, Obrien Road is a normal, paved roadway shooting off to the left at nearly a right angle.
Mark S. Jordan
Mount Vernon Fire Department Chief Shawn Christy is pleased with his department’s response to the Dec. 16 fire that engulfed the H.M. Young House at 112 E. Gambier St.
Samantha Scoles
The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act went into effect Dec.19, which requires that all public pools/spas have entrapment prevention covers placed over main drains.
Kenesha Beheler
Knox County’s unemployment figures crept up three-tenths of a percent in November, according to Knox Department of Job & Family Services Director Roger Shooter, who delivered the news to the county commissioners Monday.
Mark S. Jordan
Alma Dye, 74, Danville, is listed in critical condition today in Grant Medical Center. She was injured Sunday night in a one-car crash that claimed the life of her husband, Harold Dye, 78.
Judges of the 5th District Court of Appeals have agreed with the decisions of a lower court that permit assessments of property owners by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District to fund a plan of maintenance and rehabilitation in the system of reservoirs and dams in the Muskingum River Watershed.
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